Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last three weeks I've been negotiating with the Russians at Geneva," said John Foster Dulles on a nationwide radio and television broadcast, "and that's quite a job. As I expect you know, this Geneva meeting didn't get us very far . . . In fact it didn't get us anywhere at all . . . Now the ex planation as I see it is this: the Soviet leaders appear to want certain results, but they are not yet willing to pay the price...
...also easing the procedures that control trade with the Soviet bloc, Dulles added. He offered more, if the Russians would reciprocate: distribution of Russian films, books, newspapers in the U.S.; establishment of regular Russian commercial-airline flights, even a monthly exchange of radio commentaries on world developments to be broadcast over U.S. networks...
Bernard De Voto '18, writer, editor and Pulitzer prize-winning historian, died last night in New York. De Voto, who won the 1947 Pulitzer prize in history for his book "Across the Wide Missouri," was taken to Presbyterian Hospital after collapsing at a television studio of the Columbia Broadcasting Company. He had just completed a broadcast...
Soccer and cross country enthusiastis have long asked why these activities are not major sports. The answer has always boiled down to one reply, that neither sports commands enough spectator appeal. But by last Friday even a concerted campaign of publicity stunts, including a walkie-talkie broadcast of the Big Three cross country meet, had done all it could. It is time now for the Faculty Committee on Athletics to recognize that soccer and cross country deserve major status--publicity or no publicity...
...Hanover--a locality which, incidentally, couldn't get the game on television either--CBS had been preparing for the broadcast as if the whole world would be listening. More than 20 technicians invaded the village weeks in advance and proceeded to wire up everything in sight. Since the town has no cable connection with Concord, site of the nearest CBS station, two steel towers were built to transmit the voice and picture across the New England countryside on a special microwave circuit. On the day of the game, there were so many CBS men in the press box that reporters...